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Frowning in sentence

78 examples of Frowning in a sentence

Gleaming with dark fire, his eyes had shrunk beneath his frowning brow.
His pursed lips and frowning brow indicated that he was in the grip of his monomania.
He looked up sharply, with a frowning brow, and said in a pretty stern tone:"Oh, it's you!
They sat opposite one another, with protruding stomachs, puffed-up faces, and frowning looks, after so much disagreement uniting at last in the same human weakness, and they moved no more than the corpse by their side, that seemed to be sleeping.
'Pay good heed, my son, to what is taking place in your heart,' said the cure, frowning; 'I congratulate you on your vocation, if it is to it alone that must be ascribed your scorn of a more than adequate provision.
'Mademoiselle Fourmont, who has been the reigning beauty all winter,' his companion rejoined, 'sees that she must now take the second place: look how strangely she is frowning.'
And all the fellows were frowning, and looking stern and noble.
His whole mind was set on revenging himself upon de Lissac for having taken Edie from him, and he would sit for hours with his chin upon his hands glaring and frowning, all wrapped in the one idea.
'It was summer-time; and wrapped in his gloomy thoughts, he would issue from his solitary lodgings early in the evening, and wandering along a narrow path beneath the cliffs, to a wild and lonely spot that had struck his fancy in his ramblings, seat himself on some fallen fragment of the rock, and burying his face in his hands, remain there for hours--sometimes until night had completely closed in, and the long shadows of the frowning cliffs above his head cast a thick, black darkness on every object near him.
And Mr. Nupkins was sitting in his easy-chair, frowning with majesty, and boiling with rage, when a lady was announced on pressing, private, and particular business.
Bless you!'With these words Mrs. Colonel Wugsby kissed her eldest daughter most affectionately, and frowning in a warning manner upon the other, sorted her cards.
Thank you, Sir; thank you.'Thus delivering himself, Mr. Pell thrust his hands into his pockets, and, frowning grimly around, rattled three halfpence with terrible determination.
Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this long narrative.
Was it very cold in the Cow's Mouth, Tarvin Sahib?"Tarvin drew back, frowning, but not betraying himself further.
When the two Musketeers had entered; when the door was closed behind them; when the buzzing murmur of the antechamber, to which the summons which had been made had doubtless furnished fresh food, had recommenced; when M. de Treville had three or four times paced in silence, and with a frowning brow, the whole length of his cabinet, passing each time before Porthos and Aramis, who were as upright and silent as if on parade--he stopped all at once full in front of them, and covering them from head to foot with an angry look, "Do you know what the king said to me," cried he, "and that no longer ago than yesterday evening--do you know, gentlemen?"
The Prince rolled his eyes in indignation, as if to collect some safe and easy victim; and chancing to encounter the firm glance of the same archer whom we have already noticed, and who seemed to persist in his gesture of applause, in spite of the frowning aspect which the Prince bent upon him, he demanded his reason for clamouring thus.
"The envoy of Tosti," he said, "moved up the hall, undismayed by the frowning countenances of all around him, until he made his obeisance before the throne of King Harold.
'What were you talking about?' he asked frowning and looking from one to the other with frightened eyes.
But Nicholas understood that he meant just that, and frowning, again took hold of the vodka bottle.
'Oh no, no, I am not Steve,' she said frowning.
They write that Kitty Shcherbatskaya is very ill.''Really?' said Vronsky, frowning.
But Levin, frowning, pretended not to see the hand, and began taking the snipe out of the game-bag.
'Would you like to go into my study?' said Levin, frowning moodily, and addressing Oblonsky in French.
That's the way Ryabinin does business, no fussing about kopeks,' he said, frowning and flourishing his pocket-book.
'As you see,' said Vronsky, frowning and wiping his mouth, without looking at the speaker.
'What?' said Vronsky frowning, making a grimace of disgust and showing his regular teeth.
I want to have a look at her.''Come along,' said the Englishman frowning and speaking as before without opening his mouth.
Alexis Vronsky's frowning face turned pale, and his prominent lower jaw twitched, a thing that rarely happened to him.
She glanced for an instant at him with a look of inquiry, and, slightly frowning, turned away again.
'However, all that is not to the point,' said Koznyshev, frowning; he did not like to be contradicted, especially when he was met with arguments that incessantly shifted their ground, introducing new considerations without sequence so that it was difficult to know which of them to answer first.
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